Summer is coming (I promise!) and if you're sporting a ONE-pack
instead of a SIX-pack, this guest article is right up your alley.

This is from my friend and colleague Kevin Stock (that's a pic of
him below)...



And yeah, as you can see, the dude knows exactly what he's doing
in the gym AND in the kitchen. This kind of physique doesn't
happen by accident.

His info can help you YOU do the same. Enjoy the article!

Nick

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2 Tricks to Getting Abs that POP
By Dr. Kevin Stock
Author of Magazine Abs SSI

When it comes to TRULY getting abs (I'm talking REAL ABS -
that pop out) there are 2 MISTAKES that EVERYONE makes.

Master these 2 things and you will have a rippled midsection in no time.


1. CARBOHYDRATES

How efficiently and effectively your body utilizes carbohydrates
is perhaps the most important nutritional aspect to getting
seriously cut (i.e. really low levels of body fat). So unless you
are already sub 7% body fat (in this case - skip to point #2)
strategically managing and manipulating your carbohydrate
intake is essential to your diced abs quest.

Without smothering too much of my science nerd on you, there
are a couple of "Sciencey" words we need to know.

- Insulin Sensitivity - we want our cells to be as sensitive to
insulin as possible. This is the opposite of insulin resistance
(characterized by pre-diabetes and diabetes). Insulin resistance
and diabetes is prevalent due to the fact people have no idea
how to manage their carbohydrates. Oh, and it's no coincidence
that diabetes and obesity are directly correlated. All we need
to know here is, the higher the insulin sensitivity, the better
the cells uptake glucose, the better your body utilizes
carbohydrates ' the better you look.

- Nutrient Partitioning - this is directly related to insulin
sensitivity, and is a term describing how you are directing
your nutrients. Are they going to fat stores? Or are you
sending them to muscle tissue to replenish glycogen and
stimulate protein synthesis? With a properly structured
nutrition and training strategy, you can maximize
nutrient partitioning shuttling essential nutrients to muscular
tissue and away from adipose (fat) tissue.

The way I train people to optimize carbohydrate usage is through
what I call the SSI System. This "Strategic Scientific Integration"
allows one to eat carbohydrates at optimal times (NO - not in
the morning!) to maximize insulin sensitivity and nutrient
partition. (more on this at the end…)


2. ABDOMINAL TRAINING

I have no clue when it became commonplace and socially
acceptable to train abs like a wussy. If people trained their
chest or biceps or legs like they train abs they would be
laughed at. Imagine just doing biceps curls with your arms -
no weights - just curling your forearm. Ludicrous, I know -
and you wouldn't expect much bicep growth, would you?

Honestly, lying on the ground and repping out bodyweight
crunches for sets of 5,000 isn't going to get you the abs
you want.

HERE is the key formula:

RESISTANCE + Time Under Tension = POPPING AWESOME ABDOMINALS

Let me give you a quick example.

One of my favorite abdominal exercises is weighted crunches
using ropes on the cable pulley (you know the ropes most
people use for tricep extensions).

Try this out: Put a weight on where you can do about 8-10 reps,
then drop the weight and pump out another 8-10, then drop
the weight and gut out (pun intended) another 8-10.

What we are doing here is we are adding RESISTANCE with
the weight from the cable pulley. We are increasing T.U.T. =
Time Under Tension with the drop sets. And with this
process we are creating POPPING AWESOME ABDOMINALS.

To bring it all together, when you eat strategically (SSI
Nutrition) and combine it with a strategic training protocol
(SSI Training) you get results. It's as easy as that.

And I'd love to explain SSI to you more in depth, so you can
use this Strategic Scientific Integration technique to get you
the abs and the body I know you can get.

Head over to my site and let me reveal
to you how it's done!

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Just to quickly recap, I'm in total agreement with Kevin on
the two points in his article. Managing your carb intake is
critically important...even more important than fat intake
(assuming you're not eating bacon three meals a day, of
course!).

And I've been preaching about using resistance for abdominal
training literally for the last 15 years (probably more). In
order to develop a muscle (abs included), you MUST work
that muscle with resistance. Simple as that.

The abdominals are actually primarily fast twitch muscles
that respond best to resistance and low to moderate rep
ranges, NOT the high-rep endurance training that most people
tend to default to.

The final point I want to make is this...when you develop
your abs with resistance, you'll actually be able to SEE them
even at higher bodyfat levels.

And when you get to LOW bodyfat levels (like you can with
Kevin's Magazine Abs program), your abs will look INSANE.

Nick Nilsson
The "Mad Scientist of Muscle"



P.S. If you know anybody else who might benefit from this
information, feel free to forward this email to them!

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